How to Beat that 2:30 Feeling
[caption id="attachment_11327" align="alignright" width="226" caption="The doctor will see you now..."][/caption] The first year of physician residency training is to mental endurance what the Ironman triathlon is to physical endurance. You constantly feel as if you are overwhelmed, futility is evident in the majority of your tasks, and there is always someone ahead of you in the race that is better at what you do than you are. At the end you feel a marginal sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, similar to taking a few jabs from Anderson Silva before being knocked-out in the second round. The more significant residual sensation is ...
5 Minutes to Kill Yourself
An amusing new flash game really "takes a stab" at the cubicle world. Just read this description: "Stan is in hell. He lives the day-in, day-out workaday life of a cube jockey. A last-minute meeting request pushes him over the edge. As Stan, you wander the office space finding ingenious ways to hurt him until Stan’s health is completely drained. He has but five minutes—if he can’t do it by then, he’s doomed to sit through yet another boring meeting. You’re Stan’s only hope."
Finally! A Better Notepad: Tidbit
The memo pad, staple of just about every office in the world, has reached the next level. Tidbit is a Japanese line of memo pads, with each piece of paper perforated in a grid format. The user (read: employee) can then decide how much of said paper is required for their next note, and simply tear off the mini-memo. It even comes complete with a small pocket to store each one. What will they think of next! By the way, they also lend themselves to the desktop animal paper art - shown below. Can you say "origami"? [nggallery id=135] [Source: Matomeno]
The Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs of 2010
[caption id="attachment_13949" align="alignright" width="170" caption="Life is not fair."][/caption] How much did you earn last year? LOL! Most of these CEO's earn more than that in a single day. The Associated Press recently determined the top 50 highest paid CEOs from the S&P 500 companies for the 2010 year. These formula used to generate these figures included perks like stock options and bonuses to arrive at the figures. Below you'll find a gallery of the top 10. [imagebrowser id=60 w=350]
Infographic: 10 Hot Recession Proof Careers
You’re unemployed. You’re career didn’t quite pan out the way you had hoped. You’ve got to think quick and get back in the game. Where should you look? Try these 10 hot recession proof careers:...
UPS Driver Flips Off Security Camera and Throws Package
We get it. Delivering packages each and everyday (or is it just Mon-Fri now?) has got to be tedious, especially around the holidays. Still, what reason could this particular UPS driver have to not only...
Video: Cubicle Christmas Light Show
What’s that? You want to see a good Christmas light show? Wait, what’s? It’s in your cubicle? AWESOME. We actually are curious as to what company this is, that employees have this sort of free...
Picture: Cancel All My Meetings
Gotta love the...
Professor Fired After Giving James Franco a D
Actor James Franco is someone who isn’t shy about wearing a lot of hats. His latest resume bullet: Occupational hazard. That’s right. The “127 Hours” star’s name is coming up a lot recently in relation...
Brilliant Resumes on Craigslist – December 21, 2011
We’ve been providing our readers with a sneak peak of some of our favorite resumes found on Craigslist. After those long days of job hunting, sometimes we all need a good laugh. If we can...
2011 Office Gift Guide: Common Mistakes
Examples: Lotions, soaps, fruit cakes (even though I personally find them delicious), picture frames, candles, etc. I am definitely guilty here. When I am stuck on gift ideas, my laziness chimes in with, “Oh, you...
News From The Cube – December 20, 2011
In addition to the community we’ve built here on The Collared Sheep, there’s a fun group of folks on Twitter who make the work day easier by broadcasting live from their cubicles and offices. We...
Infographic: What Kinds of Videos Do Americans Watch at Work?
What kind of videos do Americans admit to watching on their mobile devices at work? I'll give you a hint: it's not Bloomberg...
Two Executives Arrested and Fired For Fighting On Plane
A few years ago Father Von Kaiser moved into a consultant role for a nice company and he’s since traveled the world many times over. He actually told me that he shredded about 150,000 miles...
Office Haiku: The Week Before Christmas
I can't stand this week. Nobody shows up for work, except of course...
Commercial: Santa Uses Apple’s Siri
Just in time for the holidays, my favorite ad of the season was released over the weekend. Unsurprisingly, it comes from Apple. It’s another classic. (Note: We’re kinda split on Apple products here at TCS,...
The Man’s Best Friend – WWED
Each Friday, Heidi answers readers’ questions about how to cope with cubicle-based dilemmas. Send your questions here. Q. Dear Heidi, I’ve got a bit of an odd one here. I am a veteran of the...
